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This book is absolutely devastating. And absolutely necessary. Chapter 52 should carry a huge trigger warning, though. My God. My. God. I‘m nauseous.
Listening to it was awful. It cannot compare to horror those who have had to suffer through these shootings have experienced, but…Jesus.

I don‘t know why I‘m doing this to myself. Maybe I see listening to this book a way to pay my respects. Maybe it‘s to try to make sense of this crazy world we live in—-of this even crazier country where we do nothing to stop these tragedies even though the solution is staring us right in the face. How many more? How. Many. More?!

Hard subject matter but such a good & important book. I was a senior in college when Columbine happened & I remember the media coverage. I remember sitting in horror & watching it all unfold. Cullen was there from day 1 watching, reacting, trying to understand & then reporting on what was happening. He‘s dedicated his career to reporting about the horrors of school shootings that are way too common place in America. He‘s thoroughly investigated

Yummy yo-sushi and a good book #columbine #davecullen

This book was recommended to me by my English teacher, and I love it. This book was so good! I can‘t even imagine how someone could write this! The amount of research the author must have done is insane, and the way it was written gave me goosebumps!

This book is so terrifyingly beautiful that I am at a loss of words.

I wish I could give more stars, but 🤷🏻‍♀️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Shame did not register; neither did fear. Psychopaths are not individuals losing touch with those emotions. They never developed them from the start.

😭

“How can we cry if we don‘t know who we are crying for?” One girl asked. And yet she had cried. She had cried most of the night, she said. By morning, she had run out of tears.

Eric dreamed big but settled for reality.

Psychopaths don‘t act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman abates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role.

You can‘t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.

This is very well written and investigated. An important read for EVERYONE.
⭐️: 4/5

I was not prepared for this book. It‘s sooooooo good.

On to the next book!!! Columbine has been a book that‘s been on my list. After living the generation of it, I‘ve always wanted to know the behind the scenes information that has been lost.

#2022reads #kneedeep

I‘ve finished Columbine by Dave Cullen today, it was a very difficult read, but I‘m glad I finally did it. Not just because it‘s my community where it happened 8 years before it became my home, but because turns out what I knew about it was mostly wrong. I also needed to read it especially now, as I watch most heinous deeds unfold, asking why. This book provided some answers, and it made me very sad. Because despite everything, horrors go on.

#DoubleSpin #BookSpin

I finished my DoubleSpin book for this month. It was an interesting read. A lot to process, but worth the read.

@TheAromaofBooks

For far too many nights during the last 22 years we have witnessed tragic school shootings that there are no words in my vocabulary to describe. Lighting a candle tonight for all those lives lost and those still struggling to survive. #teachersoflitsy

Starting this today but a little afraid of it….

I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday, work was nuts, but here are my totals from Sunday!

#Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter @clwojick #Screamathon @4thHouseontheLeft #ReadLikeHellathon @readlikehellathon #MurderTheyReadathon #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #WickedThon @StayCurious

I thought I knew the details of Columbine. I remember seeing it happen on TV and was shocked at what I saw. But what I knew was not what really happened. Truth of the incident developed over time and,of course, the media didn‘t cover what ultimately came out about this mass shooting. The author kept the story moving by going back to the troubled past of Eric snd Dylan. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a tough read, but an amazing, thorough, and empathetic piece of journalism.

Finally finished this one and I'm glad I waited to get the newest release copy! I really wanted to pace myself and I'm happy I did because it was a LOT. Very, very well researched. Incredibly detailed and just all around well done. I keep coming back to Columbine randomly over the years and this is by far the best I've read on it yet. This isn't a book to rush, though. Take it slow.

#bookspinbingo #NutsInMay
@TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65

This chapter on psychopaths is incredible but it begs the question "Where do we who DO feel emotions but find those events, subjects and people interesting and fascinating fall on this scale?" Are we just one emotion away from psychopathy ourselves? While I've never had an urge to end a life (well...maybe an ex or two ??? jokes) and my search history would put me as suspect number 1 in the event of a tragedy ⬇️

It's about that time

#LongDay #BookandBath #Captain #Relaxxxxx

I‘m so glad I got a chance to read this. What a well researched and eloquent book to inform people about a highly publicized traumatic event. It gave me goosebumps

Spending some quality time on a Saturday night 😅

Call of Duty for him and a book for me.

At least we're in the same room, right? 🤣

#justanothernightin #wildsaturday

Got my #BingoBoard set up and ready to go! Let's get this month started on the right foot 👍

#bookspin 📚 Lighthousekeeping
#doublespin 📚 Siege and Storm
#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks

It's been a month. Sickness through the house, crazy times at work, mental drain and a sick, sick baby. I'm ready for things to cool down and get back to my normal routine...starting with #BookspinBingo 😊

I made a list. Let's see how this goes!

@TheAromaofBooks

I was a senior sitting in my computing skills class when we heard the news from Colorado. I remember feeling so scared. I also remember feeling sure that the grownups would make it so this never happened again. Now 20+ years later, I‘m the grown up and mass shootings are as American as baseball and apple pie. I am heartbroken today on this most terrible of anniversaries. I highly recommend Cullen‘s examination of this tragedy. An important read.

Most of us remember the mass shooting at Columbine High School. But unless you read this book, you won‘t know the whole story of the two teen killers and why they did what they did. You won‘t know how inept the response was to the event by police and SWAT. You won‘t understand the heartbreak of losing a child or the immediate response of the local community. Well written and researched, infuriating in places. Five stars.

I have still not picked up a book this month. I've binged some this, played some games and just flat out taken a break but I want to want to read!

This has been on my list for a long time and a good true crime can normally pop me out of a rut. If I can get 100 pages down....I'm golden!

Wish me luck!

#AwesomeApril @Andrew65

Bk10 of March is done! I think I‘ll be adding this to my #TopFiveTrueCrime of all time @Cathythoughts It was well researched, it was personal & it focused at least half of the book on the victims instead of the shooters. It depresses me that 22yrs later, no lessons have been learnt by the government after seeing the latest mass shooting in Colorado.😢 #NonFictionBingo #PickYourPoison #ChunksterChallenge #NerdReading2021 #52BookClubChallenge

Currently 146pgs into this well researched true crime about the tragedy at Columbine High School, April20 1999. The author has definitely dug into the case, it‘s a very well balanced, non hysterical account of not just the shooters & the event itself, but also the victims, their families & the whole community that it impacted. I‘m Australian, I will never get the obsession with guns in the US, to me it seems simple, stricter gun control.🤷🏻‍♀️

It‘s on the rising 9th grade summer reading list and one of my pumpkins insisted I read it, lending me her copy

This book uses masterful reporting to tell the stories behind the hearts and souls involved in the 1999 school shooting. I have never read a book so vivid and nuanced that was non-fiction.

@AprilMae Thank you so much for the gift! Can‘t wait to read this one and dig into these tasty treats! Happy Valentine‘s Day! 💘

@candority Thanks so much for organizing!! ❤️

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I can see why this is such a classic, hard but important to read. It‘s interesting reading after Parkland by the same author, and how in Parkland he made such a specific effort not to psychoanalyse or get into the killer‘s motives following doing that here. I can see both wise of why he moved away from doing that, afraid it would drive hero worship, but also why it was so fascinating and effective to do.

This was difficult to read even after all these years. 16 pts for #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick #bookspinbingo square @TheAromaofBooks
I read 4 hours today for #outstandingOctober @Andrew65

1. In Wisconsin they are starting to change and love the colors.
2. Pumpkin spice everything!
3. Tagged now and a bunch of books for #scarathlon2020
Thanks for the tag @Sace @MoonWitch94
@peaknit #thoughtfulThursday

Happy #scarathlon2020 ya'll! I work all day so not much reading but my first pick #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick 1 pt.

Read. This. Book.

Well, this was a tough one to listen to... but absolutely amazing.

The chronology of the book really worked, with sections looking back to before the shootings, then more current events, then back to the actual day, revealing new information each time.

I felt that Cullen did a great job in presenting a factual but sympathetic portrayal of what happened that day and why, and I really liked the narrator too.

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Tough to come up with words for this one. I remember it when it happened, but so much of this was new information. I appreciated the extra insight even though it did give me the chills.

While this was a difficult and dark read — I think it is an eye opening and possibly even necessary one. My students really took to this book and so I knew I was going to have to read it eventually to see what drew students to it — especially considering they weren‘t even alive when this book happened! Book 4. #BookSpin #BookSpinBonanza